Kildare North — week of Mon, 4 Dec — Watch Them Work

What your Kildare North TDs did this week

Mon, 4 Dec – 10 Dec 2023 · 5 TDs · 4 bills voted on · 93 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Renters

2023-12-06 · 2 votes

Amendment again put: · motion passed 67–60

Voted for 2 Bernard Durkan · James Lawless

Voted against 2 Catherine Murphy · Réada Cronin

Did not vote 3 Aidan Farrelly · Joe Neville · Naoise Ó Cearúil

The motion · motion passed 67–59

Voted for 2 Bernard Durkan · James Lawless

Voted against 2 Catherine Murphy · Réada Cronin

Did not vote 3 Aidan Farrelly · Joe Neville · Naoise Ó Cearúil

Immigration

2023-12-06 · 1 vote

A sub-amendment · motion failed 16–107

Voted for 1 Catherine Murphy

Voted against 3 Bernard Durkan · James Lawless · Réada Cronin

Did not vote 3 Aidan Farrelly · Joe Neville · Naoise Ó Cearúil

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

2023-12-05 · 1 vote

The week's Dáil business schedule · motion passed 79–59

Voted for 2 Bernard Durkan · James Lawless

Voted against 2 Catherine Murphy · Réada Cronin

Did not vote 3 Aidan Farrelly · Joe Neville · Naoise Ó Cearúil

Confidence in the Minister for Justice

2023-12-05 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 83–63

Voted for 2 Bernard Durkan · James Lawless

Voted against 2 Catherine Murphy · Réada Cronin

Did not vote 3 Aidan Farrelly · Joe Neville · Naoise Ó Cearúil

Aidan Farrelly — Social Democrats 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

James Lawless — Fianna Fáil 5 votes · 13 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 13 total

Transport 3 questions
- 2023-12-05 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Transport if plans are in place to expand park and ride facilities for Sallins and Maynooth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53410/23]
- 2023-12-06 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Transport if his Department could reverse the revoking of the funding for the Naas Mobility Network Integration Pathfinder Project (details supplied) and meet with officials of Kildare County Council to agree a timeline for the delivery of these infrastructural changes in Naas, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53919/23]
- 2023-12-06 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Transport the reason for the delay in proving driving tests (details supplied); the measures his Department will be taking to shorten these delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53929/23]
Foreign 2 questions
- 2023-12-05 Deputy James Lawless asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53244/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy James Lawless asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport application (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53357/23]
Health 2 questions
- 2023-12-05 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health if he will examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53348/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Health when he proposes to on open all the beds in Kenmare community nursing unit, Kenmare, County Kerry. [53891/23]
Housing 2 questions
- 2023-12-07 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has any information on how many first-time buyers have purchased homes to date in 2023; how this compares to 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53938/23]
- 2023-12-07 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his assessment of the impact of affordable purchase initiatives on increasing home ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53937/23]
Environment 1 question
- 2023-12-05 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the commencement date for the green energy home loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53859/23]
Social 1 question
- 2023-12-05 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine a matter in relation to the carer's bonus payment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53238/23]
Children 1 question
- 2023-12-05 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53359/23]
Education 1 question
- 2023-12-06 Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Education if she will consider a change to the outdated practice of age discrimination of bus drivers under contract with Bus Éireann (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54054/23]

Joe Neville — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Naoise Ó Cearúil — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Réada Cronin — Sinn Féin 5 votes · 6 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 6 total

Children 3 questions
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Section 3 investigations opened before the CASP was implemented at the end of June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53768/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of notifications sent to AGS by area and by year in line with the table provided in reply to Parliamentary Question Nos. 167 and 168 of 12 October 2023 where the data is withheld by the indication of a * to confirm that the notification to AGs took place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53769/23]
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 167 and 168 of 12 October 2023, to confirm that the number of Section 3 investigations and notifications to AGS are the same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53770/23]
Education 2 questions
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if a new classroom which was to be ready in October for a school in Maynooth (details supplied) will be ready, in January 2024; if the school will have the teacher needed for the children who have arrived and will arrive from playschool; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53723/23]
- 2023-12-06 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education her Department's emergency plans to address the shortage of school places in north Kildare, with a least 66 children currently without a school place, and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53995/23]
Health 1 question
- 2023-12-05 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if he will address, immediately, the situation whereby nursing students have just been informed that the INMO are reportedly to change the students’ travel allowance entitlement, from a flat weekly rate, to one that is receipts-based, leaving those students currently finishing a six-week placement bloc at an immediate financial disadvantage since they did not know receipts would be required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53833/23]